Software Developer Jobs in London

Software Developer
England > London

The median Software Developer salary in London is £85,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 228 218
Rank change year-on-year -32 -10 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Developer 287 496 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.17% 1.57% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.65% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 251 407 641
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £142,500 £98,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £121,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 23,146 30,010 71,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.21%
Number of salaries quoted 17,034 22,517 35,164
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Developer in London.

Salary trend for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Developer in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Developer in London

Software Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 8 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +37 72 £85,000 +25.93% 10
South London -34 5 £40,750 -25.91% 2
East London - 5 £52,500 - 1
West London -14 1 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Software Developer
England

Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 8 June 2024, Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Software Developer in the job title.

1 151 (52.61%) Agile
2 149 (51.92%) JavaScript
3 130 (45.30%) Java
4 123 (42.86%) AWS
5 111 (38.68%) Software Engineering
6 109 (37.98%) C#
7 102 (35.54%) Finance
8 97 (33.80%) Python
9 85 (29.62%) TypeScript
10 81 (28.22%) Apache
11 79 (27.53%) .NET
11 79 (27.53%) Banking
12 78 (27.18%) GCP
12 78 (27.18%) Front Office
13 77 (26.83%) Asset Management
14 76 (26.48%) Investment Banking
14 76 (26.48%) Fixed Income
14 76 (26.48%) Protocol Buffers
14 76 (26.48%) SciPy
14 76 (26.48%) NumPy
14 76 (26.48%) Pandas
14 76 (26.48%) gRPC
14 76 (26.48%) Apache Airflow
14 76 (26.48%) Amazon Athena
14 76 (26.48%) Apache Ignite
14 76 (26.48%) Dremio
14 76 (26.48%) dbt
14 76 (26.48%) Apache Arrow
15 73 (25.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 72 (25.09%) Hedge funds

Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 81 (28.22%) Apache
2 76 (26.48%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.74%) Drupal
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Notion
Cloud Services
1 123 (42.86%) AWS
2 78 (27.18%) GCP
3 76 (26.48%) dbt
4 63 (21.95%) Snowflake
5 61 (21.25%) Azure
6 13 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (3.83%) GitHub
8 10 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (3.14%) Serverless
10 7 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.09%) Boomi
11 6 (2.09%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.74%) Pulumi
13 4 (1.39%) Azure Functions
13 4 (1.39%) Azure Pipelines
14 3 (1.05%) Azure Table
15 2 (0.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) Multicast
1 4 (1.39%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (26.48%) Amazon Athena
1 76 (26.48%) Apache Arrow
1 76 (26.48%) Apache Ignite
1 76 (26.48%) Dremio
2 63 (21.95%) Data Lake
3 52 (18.12%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.23%) Relational Database
5 8 (2.79%) MySQL
6 5 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.05%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (1.05%) DB2
8 3 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.05%) Power BI
8 3 (1.05%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) Firebird
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (10.45%) Git
2 11 (3.83%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.44%) CircleCI
3 7 (2.44%) CMake
4 5 (1.74%) JIRA
5 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.05%) GitLab
5 3 (1.05%) Protractor
6 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.35%) Appium
7 1 (0.35%) Gradle
7 1 (0.35%) JUnit
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.35%) TestNG
7 1 (0.35%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 102 (35.54%) Finance
2 79 (27.53%) Banking
3 78 (27.18%) Front Office
4 76 (26.48%) Investment Banking
5 48 (16.72%) Social Skills
6 17 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.14%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.44%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.74%) Electronics
10 5 (1.74%) Legal
11 4 (1.39%) Automotive
11 4 (1.39%) Law
12 3 (1.05%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.70%) Marketing
14 1 (0.35%) Advertising
14 1 (0.35%) Back Office
14 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.35%) Military
14 1 (0.35%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (27.53%) .NET
2 76 (26.48%) gRPC
2 76 (26.48%) NumPy
2 76 (26.48%) Pandas
2 76 (26.48%) Protocol Buffers
2 76 (26.48%) SciPy
3 53 (18.47%) HTML
4 50 (17.42%) CSS
5 29 (10.10%) WPF
6 28 (9.76%) HTML5
7 26 (9.06%) RESTful
8 24 (8.36%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.18%) .NET Framework
9 12 (4.18%) ASP.NET
10 11 (3.83%) React
11 9 (3.14%) jQuery
12 7 (2.44%) React Native
13 6 (2.09%) Kafka
13 6 (2.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 6 (2.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 76 (26.48%) Fixed Income
2 73 (25.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 72 (25.09%) Hedge funds
4 71 (24.74%) Derivative
5 70 (24.39%) Equities
6 21 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.48%) Blockchain
8 10 (3.48%) Cloud Native
8 10 (3.48%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.79%) IoT
9 8 (2.79%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (2.09%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.74%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.39%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.39%) NHS
12 4 (1.39%) Product Ownership
13 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.70%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.89%) Windows
2 10 (3.48%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.79%) Linux
4 7 (2.44%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.05%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (52.61%) Agile
2 111 (38.68%) Software Engineering
3 77 (26.83%) Asset Management
4 62 (21.60%) Line Management
5 47 (16.38%) Computer Science
6 44 (15.33%) Investment Management
7 41 (14.29%) Fintech
8 38 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
9 37 (12.89%) CI/CD
9 37 (12.89%) TDD
10 36 (12.54%) DevOps
11 34 (11.85%) Multithreading
12 33 (11.50%) Collaborative Working
13 31 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (9.76%) Multithreaded Programming
15 23 (8.01%) Analytics
16 20 (6.97%) Clean Code
16 20 (6.97%) Mentoring
16 20 (6.97%) Microservices
17 15 (5.23%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 149 (51.92%) JavaScript
2 130 (45.30%) Java
3 109 (37.98%) C#
4 97 (33.80%) Python
5 85 (29.62%) TypeScript
6 67 (23.34%) SQL
7 28 (9.76%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.53%) Go
9 10 (3.48%) Ruby
10 8 (2.79%) Scala
11 7 (2.44%) C
11 7 (2.44%) PHP
12 5 (1.74%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.74%) C++
13 4 (1.39%) Rust
14 3 (1.05%) Erlang
14 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.35%) FoxPro (VFP)
15 1 (0.35%) Haskell
15 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (19.16%) Degree
2 6 (2.09%) PhD
3 5 (1.74%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.39%) DBS Check
4 4 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.05%) MCSD
5 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.05%) QA
2 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.35%) EMIR
2 1 (0.35%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (5.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Firmware
3 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.35%) Ceph
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (9.06%) Terraform
2 15 (5.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.39%) Grafana
3 4 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Ansible
4 1 (0.35%) Knative
4 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (6.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.14%) Oracle
3 7 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 6 (2.09%) Bloomberg
4 6 (2.09%) MuleSoft
4 6 (2.09%) Reuters
5 4 (1.39%) Quadient
5 4 (1.39%) Splunk
6 2 (0.70%) Dell
6 2 (0.70%) F5
6 2 (0.70%) YouTube
7 1 (0.35%) Google
7 1 (0.35%) Peregrine